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Also don’t forget there’s a bunch of frozen sleeper spy’s under the imperial palace that are programmed to join the chaos or the imperium with just a key word. This leads me to believe that Alpha was the first to be found. This also leads me to think that Alpha or whoever is still alive is most likely remaining loyal.
I like how in the Siege of Terra books, "Alpharius" mentioned that there was a whole sleeper army of alpha legion marines just waiting for their activation code, but there's like 4 or 5 different codes with drastically different ramifications
I can only recall three of those ramifications right now: The first two trigger loyalty to either Big E or Chaos, and the third is for them to kill each other... I feel like I'm missing something else, but I don't know how many.
@@griffionwyvrus9063Sort of. John Gram put a movement sensation bomb on his battle armour. Even the vibrations from him speaking can set it off. So currently, he's just stuck standing in the same position until he either figures out a way to disarm it or someone helps him. Or he dies.
I played against alpha legion for a friendly game, he told me a particularly fancy model was Alpharius, then later on he revealed that his Chaos Lord was the true Alpharius, then after a long hard fought battle I discovered the real Alpharius was a normal marine that was twerking on his home objective this whole time. Or maybe the real Alpharius was the friends we made along the way...
In Renegades:Harrowmaster, a bunch of Alpha Legion warbands convene for some common cause. When a representative of one of those warbands made his introduction, stating "I am Alpharius", the entire gathering shouted "The fuck you are!" Even the Alpha Legion is sick of their own joke lol
Ah yes, good novel. Also has the "fabius bile is a charlatan" bit, reaction to fighting primaris, and more or less likable main character, tho the writer can be a bit sus at times.
@@ashardalondragnipurake Stop with this "nothing is true" There are many facts about alpha legion that are cannon, they are not that complicated as memes and youtubers make them to be.
@@TheTopo8798reading the books. A lot of stuff is straight forward with the legion. Actually omegon/ alpharius are pretty chill and straight forward. Most of the mystique around the legion is stuff that just hasn’t been explained yet or people didn’t read the books and head canon hard asf. For example it was stated that we know for a fact one of the brothers is dead yet people keep acting like both may be alive.
God I hope you check this bc now I’m curious, but what does the hydra symbolise?? Like, now that I think about it I suppose it’s probably got something to do with how their decapitations work (cut off one head deal w 2 more etc) but now I NEED to know
@@purplehaze5607 Mostly that, the Hydra symbolizes a never ending command structure or force that simply cannot be stopped because when one falls, two take its place. For Marvel? Fuck if I know other than that. For 40K the Hydra represents Alpharius, Omegon, and the Legion as a whole.
For every Alpha legionnaire that convinces a bishop to become a Chaos spawn and plunge an entire sector into anarchy you have another that convinces a Champion of Chaos to become a Chaos spawn and dissolve his entire warband.
Their gene-seed was very stable and they took very few casualties due to their whole "we don't do assaults" thing so they probably have a shitload of marines.
I love the idea that Brad from the Poorhammer podcast had of playing an Alpha Legion with Loyalist Rules, since Primaris Marines would be appropriately sized for Alpha Leigon Marines. One can expand upon this by using the Alpha Legion Contemptor Dreads from 30k (since they're legal in 40k) and playing the Alpharius Model from 30k using Guilliman's datasheet. When your Ultramarines are actually Alphamarines.
You know whats wild? For them to infiltrate the other legions/chapters, the have to EAT the Astarte that is to be replaced, to actually get his memories...
Fun fact: Canonically every person who was able to see through all the disguise bullshit are either dead (Malcador/The emperor) or *partially* missing (Rogal Dorn) meaning that Omegon could be perfectly around and none will known. Great content, youre becoming one of my favs for both consistency and quality💓
And we have no idea if Dorn could really see through the disguise or not. All we know is that HE thinks he sees through the bullshit, there is no way to tell if Alpharius was just playing along or if he really was caught
@@BrianHall33Rogal was fooled for sure. It was the Alpha Legions intentions to expose the weaknesses to Dorn so that Dorn would reinforce and Horus would fail at using the plans given by the Alpha Legion. Same way Alpharius fooled Valdor while on a mock assassination attempt of the Emperor.
Personally I always thought that the two primarks were split on the heresy. One remains loyal and tried to sabotage whilst the other supported chaos. Their newest book showing the “truth” about Alpha makes me believe he remained loyal. This is mainly due to how he was “allegedly” being raised by the emperor. Whilst Omagon was not and wouldn’t believe in the big Es cause.
yeah that’s what i thought. also i think the armor and spear that alpharius apparently died with is omegons so it would make sense if it was actually omegon was the one to be killed by dorn. also does it really make sense for alpharius turning traitor when he was raised by E & Malcador? the whole cabal thing was kinda dumb for alpharius to believe and think he knows best more than the E. Omegon should be the one to die to dorn and it’d be cool if alpharius was cypher
Well they both swapped their names at the end of their own book so technically Omega was loyal since he was raised by the emperor but Alpha was not. Everything is super confusing when they keep changing their names.
There's this meme that always kills me because it's so true: Tzeentch has three legions : - His least favorite is the Thousand Sons - His second least favorite is the Space Wolves - His favorite is the Alpha Legion Seriously, I wonder why Tzeentch chose dumbass space wizards over literal masters of manipulation.
Not to mention alpharius was the most willing to change. Alpharius was one of the few primarchs who respected humans and actively recruited them. He was willing to use any method.
Sure, the Thousand Sons have a cult of duplicity but you don’t go to the Thousand Sons for infiltration and sabotage since astartes that are about as subtle and alive as the contents of an urn are not very great at hiding.
My favorite Alpha Legion story is when they were like "Hey, we're Alpha Legion and we're here on this planet doing stuff" and people were like "Aren't you guys supposed to be like subtle?" And Alpha Legion were like "OOPS! I guess we forgot. I sure hope no one tells anyone that we were here on this planet doing this stuff." And the people were like "This is a psyop isn't it?" And Alpha Legion said "I'll never tell" in a sing-song voice and couldn't stop giggling.
Fun fact: the Alpha legion has a bunch of secret bases that both space marines and human operatives from all sides can use a base. This leads to a funny image of a chaos alpha legion warband and loyalist warband spying on eachother in while being in the same building just down the hall. 😂
I love how they might also be the biggest chapter if all of them in stasis are still there under the imperial palace. I love how they seem to act against one another, one warband will do something clearly chaos and it will actually help the imp and one warband will do something clearly in aid of the imp and its outcome will doom a planet to Orks. it's like Tzeentch has his own marines and gets to have fun with them.
Favorite lore tidbit: that the Emperor ordered his living saint to allow the Alpha legion to have the beacon, which would allow direct communication with him.
The Alpha Legion is a legion which is most like a donut in that they are carbon based, have a opening at either end, and are made in bakeries from kidnapped children.
It makes me happy that they committed to this so much that they straight up wrote books that borderline ended with "There's a good chance everything you've been reading for the past few hours is complete bullshit Alpharius (or Omegon (or a random ass marine from the legion)) made up to either throw you off their trail or just to fuck with you"
Also to clarify the "First or last to be discovered, or both" (specifically the or both part) it's possible that Alpharius was discovered last, but Omegon had been with the emperor since the start, making them both the first and last to be discovered
Alpha Legion. That moment when you get way into Metal Gear Solid V, Face:Off, and Memento and begin doing psyops off your local Feds, during the middle of their psyops.
Alpha legion are cool concept and decent meme, and I hear their primarch book is pretty good. A minor criticism would be that they lean a bit too much into the mastermind theme without really going beyond “it was the alpha legion all along!” But they are still really cool and their 30k design is really nice.
I think it's kind of part of their ego to do the whole mastermind thing. They *really* want people to know they're unknowable without letting them know, y'know?
Ah, yes, wonderful. Now that we've come to the end of this 20 part series on Space Marine Legions, it means you can now focus all your efforts on a 20-part series on Eldar Craftworlds. Deeeelish!
Wow I can’t believe we’re already here, I’ve been with the series since dark angel and just want to say that this has actually been some of the best UA-cam warhammer lore content that I have as yet consumed and I can’t wait to see what @Mr.Bones40K dose in the future
imagine if you will a whole chapter of space marines who are actually sleeper agents and every time this chapter recruits new members and does the standard mind wipes or mental conditioning on them as any other chapter would, they actually put activation code into the mind of another astartes from the very startm meaning that not even chapter master or any actual member would know that Like imagine this happening, a 1000 marins who all though themselves to be normal chapter like blood ravens and such, suddently turn to alpha legion because apharius comes back, says that he faked his death for 10k and then uses the code phrase to wake an entire chapter as if he was summoning some fuckin army out of nowhere
An underrated legion surely. In the games(and the "hunt for voldorius" novel), they're the punching bag and moustache-twirling villains. In novels (post-heresy notables are sons of the hydra, shroud of night and renegades harrowmaster), they are the force to be reckoned with, especially in latter (main character has been shown here, with dreads, demonic left arm and partial pale spear, think of him as alpha legion's answer to decimus from night lords trilogy).
Thank you so much fpr covering them! They are by far my favorite legion. I had a feeling that they would be the last legion to be covered. Now with the legions over, im guessing the xenos are next?
I had planned to make a warband lead by "Epsileous" who always implied that he was the third head of the hydra. Now im kinda lost in other projects but maybe I'll get back to it one day.
I think the Alpha Legion might be my favorite. :) Congrats on seeing this through! It's given me a lot of food for thought on the Space Marines, introduced me to the ones I didn't really know much about and has been generally just a fun time. :3 Keep on.
A ship full of 500 Ultramarines has been in the warp for weeks. In the mess hall one day, 499 of them all draw bolt pistols and all shoot each other dead. The 500th guy, left alive and confused, was the only actual Ultramarine. The rest were all pretending the whole time, so well in fact that none of them figured out everyone else was also alpha legion (not real lore but a good example of the meme)
Things make a bit more sense when you stop looking at the Alphalegion as a whole. Look at them as the same way you would look at the Nightlords, various bands of desperate individual renegades. Some are loyal playing a long con, some fell to chaos and its promises while others just fucked off into the galaxy. Also I believe Alpharius was the 1st Primarch found but since the legion required both of them, you can't count it as a whole. Just 0.5 of a Primarch found so no point in counting them or trying to round up when their whole purpose is supposed to be espionage.
Look who got a sponsor! Nice! Hey, you need to do videos on the different armies of the Astra militarum! That would be badass. I just saw a video by the remembrencer on the vostroyan firstborn and it was pretty cool. Not to mention the amount of armies is almost endless.
@TheBoneZone40k hell yeah! There's something about regular people still being a force to be reckoned with in a world of demigods daemons and aliens. Taking the time to make them different from different planets was just an awesome move by gw. Love the channel man. Doing awesome
Heavily inspired by Isaac Asimov’s foundation I think. Remember Gw rips everything off from other sci-fi properties. A lot of the big E’s actions would be explained by him foreseeing the future and manipulating things in such a way to ensure the survival of mankind. The alpha legion represents the group that keep the path on course, good or bad they seem to be manipulating events for a greater cause.
My favorite bit of lore was an Alpha Legion warband psycho-indoctrinating Space Marines of a loyalist chapter to turn on their brothers and later adding them to their warband later.
I love their Hydra theme, because just how when you cut off a Hydra's head and two more grow back, when you think you've finally killed Alpharius, two identical assholes appear a week later calling themselves Alpharius.
There's a line where "intriguingly mysterious" stops being interesting and starts seeming like a bunch of jangling keys to distract from a lack of real depth. Alpha Legion play jump rope with that line.
Dark Angels and Alpha Legion have a lot points of contrast, I've found. Besides being the first and the last, respectively, they also have contrasting cultures. The Dark Angels are paranoid as fuck, and the Alpha Legion are the ones who would make you paranoid if you knew their MO. Besides that, the Dark Angels (before the Lion's return, at least) had an ongoing thing about their loyalty being in question, while the Alpha Legion's betrayal may have been a lie this entire time. The two legions are also split between loyalist and traitor, the Dark Angels with their Fallen, Unforgiven, and now Risen subfactions, and the Alpha Legion with their Loyalist/Traitor split between their twin Primarchs' diverging motives.
Yep. Love em. I love their duality. I love their calculating, conniving, and chaotic methods. I might be mis remembering but aren't they the only legion to find a certain truth about the future, so they decided that their tactics were going to be a huge focal point about Imperial victory and moving the Imperium through the future? I love that everything is on the table, the implant kill phrases, the plans A through D also all have contingency plans and almost nothing that occurs is far from their mark. Even a "set back" might move things to be positioned where they want them. How can you not love them?
I love the bit where the novices are covered head to toe in relics and symbols to misdirect snipers. The actual leaders and veterans are in the most simple armor
how confusing is the alpha legion? in the arks of omen arc, a group of the alpha legion with Belakor ruined Vashtor plans to attack the dark angels rock, right in the next book we learn that vashtor has a group of the alpha legion infiltrated in the death watch working for him.
I've heard, *only heard*, from other people that their main goal is to stop mankind for completely collapsing. That if chaos wins or if the emperor got his wish, it would be bad for humanity as a whole. That's why they seem like they play for both sides.
@@rockchik409 I kind of see the alpha legion like snakes with two heads (bicephaly), in nature when a snake is born with 2 heads, they will likely die because the heads fight between them, often compiting for food, or wanting to go to different direction and since both head control the same body they end up don't go anywere. the Hydra is the perfect symbol for them lol
I'm currently enamored with the concept of running a Deathwatch style pack of Space Marine Black Shields, with it being made up of equal parts Alpha, Salamander, and Space Wolves legions.
Finaly. Memelegion. Great job on the Vid and the Entire Series. Almoast sad to See it already over Also. I gues you could say that the Alpha legion went Scitso Mode. Cause trust nobody. Not even youreself
The Alpha Legion symbol is a 3 headed hydra. Could this imply that the twins had a third sibling? That would bring the number of primarchs back to 20. What could this mean for the 2nd and 11th? In this essay, I will
My favourite piece of Alpha Legion lore is one time when they took over a planet of psykers by gasing the ENTIRE PLANET which made the people have dreams of snakes falling from the sky, and because they're psykers, venomous snakes actually started raining down and killing the local populous.
I like the idea of the Alpha Legion being these expert infiltrators but I end up rolling my eyes at some of the feats they allegedly achieve. I wouldn't be surprised to read a story where a Custodes or Primaris Marine turns out to be an Alpha Legionnaire all along.
Both of those may have already happened. According to the Siege of Terra books, there's thousands of Alpha Sleeper agents among the rest of the legion. And in Head of the Hydra, Alpharius killed a Custodian and wore his armor as a disguise, only getting caught by Constantin Valdor due to his inhumanly accurate knowledge of every Custodian's armor and weapon.
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Also don’t forget there’s a bunch of frozen sleeper spy’s under the imperial palace that are programmed to join the chaos or the imperium with just a key word.
This leads me to believe that Alpha was the first to be found. This also leads me to think that Alpha or whoever is still alive is most likely remaining loyal.
My favorite fact about the Alpha Legion is that as the 20th Legion their numeral is XX and they specialize in double crosses.
Fuck that's clever
I... did not see that coming. Or did I?
20 was the original number for some historically relevant spy organization
Woah, nice!
I had never before thought of that...
Wild.
I like how in the Siege of Terra books, "Alpharius" mentioned that there was a whole sleeper army of alpha legion marines just waiting for their activation code, but there's like 4 or 5 different codes with drastically different ramifications
Isn't their first captain was currently trap inside a stasis mine field.
I can only recall three of those ramifications right now: The first two trigger loyalty to either Big E or Chaos, and the third is for them to kill each other... I feel like I'm missing something else, but I don't know how many.
@@griffionwyvrus9063Sort of. John Gram put a movement sensation bomb on his battle armour. Even the vibrations from him speaking can set it off. So currently, he's just stuck standing in the same position until he either figures out a way to disarm it or someone helps him. Or he dies.
You forgot the one thing we know about the Alpha Legion with absolute certainty:
They hate Rhinos. For only cowards and fools hide in METAL BOXES.
METUHL BAWKSES!!!!!
@@MightyGachiman*asthmatic breathing*
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@@Bodya_CN (nerdy sigh) Lord Bale.
Our enemies hide in METUHL BAWKSES!!!
We hide in your armor anyways
I played against alpha legion for a friendly game, he told me a particularly fancy model was Alpharius, then later on he revealed that his Chaos Lord was the true Alpharius, then after a long hard fought battle I discovered the real Alpharius was a normal marine that was twerking on his home objective this whole time. Or maybe the real Alpharius was the friends we made along the way...
I am Alpharius.
That player IS Alpharius. You just didn't know about it. Or maybe not. Maybe you are.
This is the way.
That was, of course, a lie.
The real alpharius was your warlord the whole time. (Disguised as omegon)
In Renegades:Harrowmaster, a bunch of Alpha Legion warbands convene for some common cause. When a representative of one of those warbands made his introduction, stating "I am Alpharius", the entire gathering shouted "The fuck you are!"
Even the Alpha Legion is sick of their own joke lol
Ah yes, good novel. Also has the "fabius bile is a charlatan" bit, reaction to fighting primaris, and more or less likable main character, tho the writer can be a bit sus at times.
That page is so hilarious.
"The man stood up. 'I am Alpharius' he said. The entire hall burst in to a mix of scoffs, curses and objections."
Third head in of the hydra is the legion themself, the marines, that can impersonate Alparius and Omegon and work without them. It was stated in lore.
holy shit, I actually missed that!
That's really cool
unless they where lying ofcourse
@@ashardalondragnipurake Stop with this "nothing is true" There are many facts about alpha legion that are cannon, they are not that complicated as memes and youtubers make them to be.
@@TheTopo8798reading the books. A lot of stuff is straight forward with the legion. Actually omegon/ alpharius are pretty chill and straight forward.
Most of the mystique around the legion is stuff that just hasn’t been explained yet or people didn’t read the books and head canon hard asf.
For example it was stated that we know for a fact one of the brothers is dead yet people keep acting like both may be alive.
@@TheTopo8798 your totally an alpha legionnaire in disguise trying to reverse psychology us, do not lie!
Dont ever call my legion a meme. We are not a meme. We are Alpharius.
I am Alpharius
@@jaczeta8900 hydra dominatus, I am alpharius
I am Omegon.
So, a meme.
No I AM ALPHARIUS
Missed the joke of opening the video by saying "Hi, I'm Alpharius"
You actually made me check. You brilliant bastard.
I was about to say the same thing
-10xp for Arthur this video
The one faction in fiction that pulls off the Hydra iconography and purpose incredibly well, get bent Marvel.
Compliance will be rewarded.
God I hope you check this bc now I’m curious, but what does the hydra symbolise?? Like, now that I think about it I suppose it’s probably got something to do with how their decapitations work (cut off one head deal w 2 more etc) but now I NEED to know
@@purplehaze5607 Mostly that, the Hydra symbolizes a never ending command structure or force that simply cannot be stopped because when one falls, two take its place. For Marvel? Fuck if I know other than that. For 40K the Hydra represents Alpharius, Omegon, and the Legion as a whole.
For every Alpha legionnaire that convinces a bishop to become a Chaos spawn and plunge an entire sector into anarchy you have another that convinces a Champion of Chaos to become a Chaos spawn and dissolve his entire warband.
Their gene-seed was very stable and they took very few casualties due to their whole "we don't do assaults" thing so they probably have a shitload of marines.
I love the idea that Brad from the Poorhammer podcast had of playing an Alpha Legion with Loyalist Rules, since Primaris Marines would be appropriately sized for Alpha Leigon Marines. One can expand upon this by using the Alpha Legion Contemptor Dreads from 30k (since they're legal in 40k) and playing the Alpharius Model from 30k using Guilliman's datasheet. When your Ultramarines are actually Alphamarines.
Currently doing alpha legion primaris. Had the ideal few years back but finally found a deal on some primaris good enough to allow me to do it.
Currently doing Ultramarine Alpha infiltrators myself lol
You know whats wild?
For them to infiltrate the other legions/chapters, the have to EAT the Astarte that is to be replaced, to actually get his memories...
They got that tyranid gene seed
That's kinda normal in some chapters tbh anyways
@@jeremikrowicki970Nah if anyone that's probably the empererors children
@@Sara3346 lmao
That's actually pretty normal. All Astartes can do that, it's just the vast majority of them are (rightly) disgusted by the idea
Arthur really dropped the ball on introducing himself as "Hi. I'm Alpharius..."
My thoughts on the Alpha Legion can be summed up as such: “I am Alpharius”
No, I am Alpharius!
“This is a lie.”
I am Alpharius and this is a lie.
I am a lie and this is Alpharius.
Maybe its true that all of you are alpharius, but i am the Real alpharius
Fun fact: Canonically every person who was able to see through all the disguise bullshit are either dead (Malcador/The emperor) or *partially* missing (Rogal Dorn) meaning that Omegon could be perfectly around and none will known.
Great content, youre becoming one of my favs for both consistency and quality💓
The second twin is Cypher pass it on.
And we have no idea if Dorn could really see through the disguise or not. All we know is that HE thinks he sees through the bullshit, there is no way to tell if Alpharius was just playing along or if he really was caught
Remember when dorn thought the imperial palace
Was impenetrable?
Peter turbo tysm proved him wrong.@@BrianHall33
@@BrianHall33Rogal was fooled for sure. It was the Alpha Legions intentions to expose the weaknesses to Dorn so that Dorn would reinforce and Horus would fail at using the plans given by the Alpha Legion. Same way Alpharius fooled Valdor while on a mock assassination attempt of the Emperor.
AL1: Are you Traitor or Loyalist?
AL2: That depends. Are you traitor or Lotalist?
That sums up the Alpha Legion.
AL3: But the real question is are you traitor or loyalist. Because if you are I may not kill you
@@Alpharius913omg are you the real Alpharius or just a fan account?
@@Prophetofthe8thLegion oh no... ITS YOU
This shit made me laugh too Loud
@@dainguyen2733 Hello there.
Personally I always thought that the two primarks were split on the heresy.
One remains loyal and tried to sabotage whilst the other supported chaos.
Their newest book showing the “truth” about Alpha makes me believe he remained loyal.
This is mainly due to how he was “allegedly” being raised by the emperor. Whilst Omagon was not and wouldn’t believe in the big Es cause.
yeah that’s what i thought. also i think the armor and spear that alpharius apparently died with is omegons so it would make sense if it was actually omegon was the one to be killed by dorn. also does it really make sense for alpharius turning traitor when he was raised by E & Malcador? the whole cabal thing was kinda dumb for alpharius to believe and think he knows best more than the E. Omegon should be the one to die to dorn and it’d be cool if alpharius was cypher
Well they both swapped their names at the end of their own book so technically Omega was loyal since he was raised by the emperor but Alpha was not.
Everything is super confusing when they keep changing their names.
@@theashen2019 And that's assuming you believe what was written in a book about the Alpha Legion.
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There's this meme that always kills me because it's so true:
Tzeentch has three legions :
- His least favorite is the Thousand Sons
- His second least favorite is the Space Wolves
- His favorite is the Alpha Legion
Seriously, I wonder why Tzeentch chose dumbass space wizards over literal masters of manipulation.
Because that a to obvious option
Not to mention alpharius was the most willing to change. Alpharius was one of the few primarchs who respected humans and actively recruited them.
He was willing to use any method.
Tzeentch chose the Thousand Sons because he doesn't like them, and he knows that serving him sucks ass.
Sure, the Thousand Sons have a cult of duplicity but you don’t go to the Thousand Sons for infiltration and sabotage since astartes that are about as subtle and alive as the contents of an urn are not very great at hiding.
*C O C K L A S E R*
My favorite Alpha Legion story is when they were like "Hey, we're Alpha Legion and we're here on this planet doing stuff" and people were like "Aren't you guys supposed to be like subtle?" And Alpha Legion were like "OOPS! I guess we forgot. I sure hope no one tells anyone that we were here on this planet doing this stuff." And the people were like "This is a psyop isn't it?" And Alpha Legion said "I'll never tell" in a sing-song voice and couldn't stop giggling.
Oh man, do I love these innocent looking Ultramarines. They are the best.
Hydra Dominatus
One thing is sure with that much confusion Tzeentch should be a big fan.
And equally as confused at their shenanigans.
tzeentch would be too confused
or the alpha legion alone is keeping him on par with the other gods
Speed run liver failure: take a shot every time Arthur says “I don’t know” in this video
Was already feeling some dread knowing that this was the end of the series, so I got SO relieved when you said you had other projects incoming!
don't worry, there is going to be a major announcement next week about what actually is gonna happen
@@TheBoneZone40k Finally.
The onlyfans announcement!
@@mizublackriver7021 oooooooohhhh let me count those bones
Fun fact: the Alpha legion has a bunch of secret bases that both space marines and human operatives from all sides can use a base.
This leads to a funny image of a chaos alpha legion warband and loyalist warband spying on eachother in while being in the same building just down the hall. 😂
Idk sounds like something an Alpha legionnaire would say.
Excellent work Mr. Bones. Now do every Space Marine successor chapter
Can't wait for the Grief Bringers!
I N F I N I T E
C O N T E N T
I love how they might also be the biggest chapter if all of them in stasis are still there under the imperial palace. I love how they seem to act against one another, one warband will do something clearly chaos and it will actually help the imp and one warband will do something clearly in aid of the imp and its outcome will doom a planet to Orks. it's like Tzeentch has his own marines and gets to have fun with them.
Favorite lore tidbit: that the Emperor ordered his living saint to allow the Alpha legion to have the beacon, which would allow direct communication with him.
When it comes to the Alpha Legion, use the old adage, "Kill them all and let the Emperor sort them out."
It's the only way to be sure.
Sounds like something an Alpha Legion agent within the Inquisition would say.
@@Gustav_Kuriga Kinda dumb, ultimately self-defeating... Yep, that sounds like them.
The Alpha Legion is a legion which is most like a donut in that they are carbon based, have a opening at either end, and are made in bakeries from kidnapped children.
It makes me happy that they committed to this so much that they straight up wrote books that borderline ended with "There's a good chance everything you've been reading for the past few hours is complete bullshit Alpharius (or Omegon (or a random ass marine from the legion)) made up to either throw you off their trail or just to fuck with you"
Also to clarify the "First or last to be discovered, or both" (specifically the or both part) it's possible that Alpharius was discovered last, but Omegon had been with the emperor since the start, making them both the first and last to be discovered
Alpha Legion. That moment when you get way into Metal Gear Solid V, Face:Off, and Memento and begin doing psyops off your local Feds, during the middle of their psyops.
Alpha legion are cool concept and decent meme, and I hear their primarch book is pretty good. A minor criticism would be that they lean a bit too much into the mastermind theme without really going beyond “it was the alpha legion all along!” But they are still really cool and their 30k design is really nice.
I think it's kind of part of their ego to do the whole mastermind thing. They *really* want people to know they're unknowable without letting them know, y'know?
love the idea of putting a alpha legion painted necron in the middle of a marine squad
"Battle Brother! Your Plasma Rifle is looking quite strange!"
2:35 to skip the massive ad.
Their entire lore can be summed by by the phrase "or it could be a psy-op".
Ah, yes, wonderful. Now that we've come to the end of this 20 part series on Space Marine Legions, it means you can now focus all your efforts on a 20-part series on Eldar Craftworlds. Deeeelish!
Wow I can’t believe we’re already here, I’ve been with the series since dark angel and just want to say that this has actually been some of the best UA-cam warhammer lore content that I have as yet consumed and I can’t wait to see what @Mr.Bones40K dose in the future
alpha legion are the humies equivalent of an ork covering himself in tin foil and infiltrating the necron side
You're acting like Trazyn the Infinite isn't Alpharius wearing a tinfoil hat
Alpha Legion can be super cool when written properly.
imagine if you will
a whole chapter of space marines who are actually sleeper agents
and every time this chapter recruits new members and does the standard mind wipes or mental conditioning on them as any other chapter would, they actually put activation code into the mind of another astartes from the very startm meaning that not even chapter master or any actual member would know that
Like imagine this happening, a 1000 marins who all though themselves to be normal chapter like blood ravens and such, suddently turn to alpha legion because apharius comes back, says that he faked his death for 10k and then uses the code phrase to wake an entire chapter as if he was summoning some fuckin army out of nowhere
And now to start with every FOUNDING in order and their chapters! God that would be cray
5 seconds in and I am disappointed. You had a golden opportunity for an Uhhh "Hi! Im Alpharius" :
"They're in the walls..."
"THEY'RE IN THE GODDAMN WALLS!!!"
WAIT A SECOND...
sorry, I had to let out your secret
"And Alpharius Omegon is a manlet."
-Lion El' Jonson
This has to be the fastest ive seen a relatively new channel get a sponsor!! Job well done Arthur
An underrated legion surely. In the games(and the "hunt for voldorius" novel), they're the punching bag and moustache-twirling villains. In novels (post-heresy notables are sons of the hydra, shroud of night and renegades harrowmaster), they are the force to be reckoned with, especially in latter (main character has been shown here, with dreads, demonic left arm and partial pale spear, think of him as alpha legion's answer to decimus from night lords trilogy).
Thank you so much fpr covering them! They are by far my favorite legion. I had a feeling that they would be the last legion to be covered.
Now with the legions over, im guessing the xenos are next?
Shit bro, I didn't realize you were growing so fast. Almost 20k subs. Can't wait to see you hit 50k and then the march to 1 MIL!!!!!!!!!
You should do some of these videos for some of a the smaller Space Marine chapters! A Black Templars vid would rule!!!
wdym smaller? that one of the biggest out there :D
I had planned to make a warband lead by "Epsileous" who always implied that he was the third head of the hydra. Now im kinda lost in other projects but maybe I'll get back to it one day.
I think the Alpha Legion might be my favorite. :) Congrats on seeing this through! It's given me a lot of food for thought on the Space Marines, introduced me to the ones I didn't really know much about and has been generally just a fun time. :3 Keep on.
Tzeench be like: "My precious little baby boys T-T"
Oh sweet. Excited to complete the pack of thicc space bois.
A ship full of 500 Ultramarines has been in the warp for weeks. In the mess hall one day, 499 of them all draw bolt pistols and all shoot each other dead. The 500th guy, left alive and confused, was the only actual Ultramarine. The rest were all pretending the whole time, so well in fact that none of them figured out everyone else was also alpha legion (not real lore but a good example of the meme)
Goatfolk stownthrower sounds like an ork name honestly 😂😂😂
Alight now make a series like this but about every successor chapter in the space marines
Missed the opportunity to say “Hi, I’m Alpharius!”
Things make a bit more sense when you stop looking at the Alphalegion as a whole. Look at them as the same way you would look at the Nightlords, various bands of desperate individual renegades. Some are loyal playing a long con, some fell to chaos and its promises while others just fucked off into the galaxy.
Also I believe Alpharius was the 1st Primarch found but since the legion required both of them, you can't count it as a whole. Just 0.5 of a Primarch found so no point in counting them or trying to round up when their whole purpose is supposed to be espionage.
There is a sense of unease you make every time when you say "im arthur" that to me is so intriguing
the ultimate "i know what you are but what am i" legion
Look who got a sponsor! Nice!
Hey, you need to do videos on the different armies of the Astra militarum! That would be badass. I just saw a video by the remembrencer on the vostroyan firstborn and it was pretty cool. Not to mention the amount of armies is almost endless.
comically enough I have an Astra Militarum video coming out next week!
@TheBoneZone40k hell yeah! There's something about regular people still being a force to be reckoned with in a world of demigods daemons and aliens. Taking the time to make them different from different planets was just an awesome move by gw.
Love the channel man. Doing awesome
Heavily inspired by Isaac Asimov’s foundation I think. Remember Gw rips everything off from other sci-fi properties. A lot of the big E’s actions would be explained by him foreseeing the future and manipulating things in such a way to ensure the survival of mankind. The alpha legion represents the group that keep the path on course, good or bad they seem to be manipulating events for a greater cause.
So essentially The Second Foundation.
My favorite bit of lore was an Alpha Legion warband psycho-indoctrinating Space Marines of a loyalist chapter to turn on their brothers and later adding them to their warband later.
I love their Hydra theme, because just how when you cut off a Hydra's head and two more grow back, when you think you've finally killed Alpharius, two identical assholes appear a week later calling themselves Alpharius.
The 3rd head is the legion it's self.
The third head is you. Applie pie. Imohtep. Flying Spaghetti. You know your mission. Do not fail.
There's a line where "intriguingly mysterious" stops being interesting and starts seeming like a bunch of jangling keys to distract from a lack of real depth. Alpha Legion play jump rope with that line.
Dark Angels and Alpha Legion have a lot points of contrast, I've found. Besides being the first and the last, respectively, they also have contrasting cultures. The Dark Angels are paranoid as fuck, and the Alpha Legion are the ones who would make you paranoid if you knew their MO. Besides that, the Dark Angels (before the Lion's return, at least) had an ongoing thing about their loyalty being in question, while the Alpha Legion's betrayal may have been a lie this entire time. The two legions are also split between loyalist and traitor, the Dark Angels with their Fallen, Unforgiven, and now Risen subfactions, and the Alpha Legion with their Loyalist/Traitor split between their twin Primarchs' diverging motives.
"I will play Alpha Legion"
*pulls out a titan on 40mm base*
He didn’t start it with “Uuuhh- Hi! I’m Alpharius.” I’m rioting.
Yep. Love em. I love their duality. I love their calculating, conniving, and chaotic methods. I might be mis remembering but aren't they the only legion to find a certain truth about the future, so they decided that their tactics were going to be a huge focal point about Imperial victory and moving the Imperium through the future? I love that everything is on the table, the implant kill phrases, the plans A through D also all have contingency plans and almost nothing that occurs is far from their mark. Even a "set back" might move things to be positioned where they want them. How can you not love them?
I saw a notification for this on my phone earlier today, and when I clicked on it it said video unavailable. Thats about as alpha legion as it gets
I love the bit where the novices are covered head to toe in relics and symbols to misdirect snipers. The actual leaders and veterans are in the most simple armor
Sigmar is one of the two lost primarchs. Change my mind.
Alpharius, Omegon, Sigmar... Yeah, that checks out
If you see this you should definitely do a video on the farsight version of the tau as a separate faction.
"I am . . . Revolver Ocelot. Wait, no, I mean I am Alpharius."
not starting the video with "uhh... hi! i'm alpharius!" is criminal
Love the pace and tone of your videos! Sets you apart from the other lore channels.
Honestly these guys are the coolest legion. Not the best, but the coolest
Great job getting the series done! Well Done!
0:55 Bro never heard about pokemon breeding 💀
how confusing is the alpha legion?
in the arks of omen arc, a group of the alpha legion with Belakor ruined Vashtor plans to attack the dark angels rock, right in the next book we learn that vashtor has a group of the alpha legion infiltrated in the death watch working for him.
I've heard, *only heard*, from other people that their main goal is to stop mankind for completely collapsing. That if chaos wins or if the emperor got his wish, it would be bad for humanity as a whole. That's why they seem like they play for both sides.
@@rockchik409 I kind of see the alpha legion like snakes with two heads (bicephaly), in nature when a snake is born with 2 heads, they will likely die because the heads fight between them, often compiting for food, or wanting to go to different direction and since both head control the same body they end up don't go anywere.
the Hydra is the perfect symbol for them lol
I'm currently enamored with the concept of running a Deathwatch style pack of Space Marine Black Shields, with it being made up of equal parts Alpha, Salamander, and Space Wolves legions.
Finaly. Memelegion. Great job on the Vid and the Entire Series. Almoast sad to See it already over
Also. I gues you could say that the Alpha legion went Scitso Mode. Cause trust nobody. Not even youreself
My favorite tid bit is, "I am Alpharius, and this is a lie", the final line in every Alpha legion book.
Hi Arthur, I'm Deez
Deez who?
DEEZ NUTSSS
FUCK
Hi, Deez I'm Alpharius
It’s just keeps going. Keep it up deez. You are a hero
The Hydra had three heads in old legends, think that's it. Maybe over thinking it.... or not! 😂😂😂
The third head is the legion.
How soon will you be talking about successor chapters like the Space Sharks or the Spanish Marines/Crimson Fists?
SIGMAR CONFIRMED THIRD ALPHA LEGION PRIMARCH LMFAO that ending is golden
-Sincerely, an Alpha Legion player
The Alpha Legion symbol is a 3 headed hydra. Could this imply that the twins had a third sibling? That would bring the number of primarchs back to 20. What could this mean for the 2nd and 11th?
In this essay, I will
The third head is the legion itself
@@averageeughenjoyer6429 Or so they say... maybe that's what they want us to think.
@@secutorprimus They don't have the brains to do that sort of thing
My favourite piece of Alpha Legion lore is one time when they took over a planet of psykers by gasing the ENTIRE PLANET which made the people have dreams of snakes falling from the sky, and because they're psykers, venomous snakes actually started raining down and killing the local populous.
I like the idea of the Alpha Legion being these expert infiltrators but I end up rolling my eyes at some of the feats they allegedly achieve. I wouldn't be surprised to read a story where a Custodes or Primaris Marine turns out to be an Alpha Legionnaire all along.
Both of those may have already happened. According to the Siege of Terra books, there's thousands of Alpha Sleeper agents among the rest of the legion. And in Head of the Hydra, Alpharius killed a Custodian and wore his armor as a disguise, only getting caught by Constantin Valdor due to his inhumanly accurate knowledge of every Custodian's armor and weapon.
@@OGXenos The saddest bit about the Alpha Legion is that GW is going to completely botch the reveal of what their real nature and motivations are.
The hydra represents triplets, I fucking knew it.
That guy over there is Alpharius.
Alpha legion: I’m about to shit yourself.
I cant believe gas lightning is whole space marine leagion